Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] Divergence from DOM standard

Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Rob Richards wrote:
>
>> The only difference here is working with a DOMElement. Per specs it 
>> should return NULL but for convenience it returns all text content of 
>> all descendants.
>
> Why such divergence, when there is textContent which can be used for 
> such task?
>
> DOM is not very good XML tree based API, but it is standard so things 
> which you learn in Java DOM or other languages DOM, should behave in 
> same way on different platforms.
It was a decision that was made during development of the extension. If 
you feel strongly about it submit a feature request for a change and 
I'll talk to some of the other xml devs about their thoughts on this. 
Any change would not be made before PHP 6 due to the BC issue a change 
like this would cause.

Rob